Method of and apparatus for reproducing a plurality of information pieces
AssigneePioneer Electronic Corporation
InventorsYoshihiko Takenaka, Yasumitsu Hitomi
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Abstract
An information reproducing apparatus reproduces a plurality of information pieces recorded on a recording medium. The apparatus has: a reading device for reading the information pieces from the recording medium in accordance with a predetermined reproduction order; a linking device for linking the information pieces read by the reading device with each other, by removing either or both of a beginning and an ending of each of the information pieces; and a converting device for converting the information pieces linked by the linking device into a reproduction signal to be supplied to an output device.
Claims19
An apparatus for reproducing a plurality of information pieces recorded on a recording medium, comprising:
- a reading device for reading the information pieces from the recording medium in accordance with a predetermined reproduction order;
- a linking device for linking the information pieces read by the reading device with each other, by removing either or both of a beginning and an ending of each of the information pieces without deleting the beginning and ending from the recording medium;
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- a converting device for converting the information pieces linked by the linking device into a reproduction signal to be supplied to an output device.
An information reproducing apparatus, comprising:
- a reading device for reading a sequence of two or more songs from a recording medium;
- a controller operable in a linking mode for linking at least first and second songs in the sequence by removing either or both of the ending of the first song and the beginning of the second song without deleting the ending of the first song and the beginning of the second song from the recording medium, wherein the second song follows the first song in the sequence;
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- a terminal for outputting reproduction signals corresponding to the linked first and second songs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.